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Using Vuforia for virtual controllers in a VR experience

Discussion in 'AR/VR (XR) Discussion' started by lmalave, Jan 21, 2016.

  1. lmalave

    lmalave

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    Playing around with the Vuforia AR/VR demo got me to thinking that Vuforia would be great for creating controllers for Google Cardboard VR experiences. Oculus, Vive, and Samsung have all announced their own controllers, but I was thinking that with Vuforia Image Targets and virtual buttons you could make some pretty nifty controllers for Cardboard, at least for testing out interaction ideas.

    Below are a couple of videos I recorded with my initial attempts at this idea:

    Using Vuforia as virtual joystick:


    Using Vuforia as virtual controller with buttons (for gun, magic wand, etc.):
     
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  2. alexispolak

    alexispolak

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    Really cool ! i'm trying to do something like this. Any tutorial ?
     
  3. kenshin

    kenshin

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    Great idea!!